Microsoft completes its acquisition of Activision Blizzard at $95 per share, clearing antitrust review.

What counted as right

Status

resolved

Settled on

2023-06-30

Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard completes at $95.00 per share on or before the outside date he names, 2023-06-30. Completion after that date, or termination, resolves the claim false on the stated horizon; verification should note the actual close on 2023-10-13 following an extension.

The price element of the claim is correct ($95.00 per share was paid) and the deal did ultimately clear antitrust review, but the criterion is date-bound: completion 'on or before the outside date he names, 2023-06-30'. The deal was not complete on that date — it closed 105 days later, on 2023-10-13. Per the criterion, completion after that date resolves the claim false on the stated horizon. Correction worth flagging to the verify/quantify stage: the record's criterion attributes a 2023-06-30 outside date to the pundit, but the merger agreement's actual contractual outside date was 2023-07-18, later extended to 2023-10-18. 2023-06-30 therefore appears to be the pundit's own stated horizon rather than a deal-document date; verification should confirm against the source quote that he in fact named 2023-06-30, since the record's own criterion text depends on it. The deal missed 2023-06-30, 2023-07-18 and closed just inside 2023-10-18, so the resolution is the same under the first two horizons. No conflicting credible evidence. No outcome value assigned here.

Sources

• Warren Buffett Bets $5.5 Billion On Activision Deal - is He Wrong?

  YouTube — Tom Nash · 2022-05-02

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